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Irrigation Makes the Farmer Independent — No Droughts — No 

Floods. 

WYOMING. 

The Homeseeker, Farmer, Business Man, Miner and Live 
Stock Raiser will find greater opportunities and more varied 
natural resources in Wyoming than in any other part of the 
West. She is the "Mother of Waters," being the source of the 
Missouri, Columbia, Colorado and North Platte Rivers. 

Hot winds, destructive storms and cyclones are unknown. 

The climate is invigorating, healthful, mild and equable. 

The air dry and 85 per cent, of the days full of bright sun- 
shine. 

350,000 Acres of Virgin Land on the Shoshone Indian Reser- 
vation, susceptible of irrigation, opened by the Government to 
entry by the Farmer under the Homestead Law at $1.50 per acre ; 
50 cents per acre at time of entry and 25 cents per acre per year 
for four years. 

Any person 21 years of age, except a married woman, may 
file on 160 acres of this land. Title may be acquired in 14 months. 



WATER FOR IRRIGATION : The Wyoming Central Irri- 
gation Company has begun the construction, under supervision 
of the State of Wyoming, of a large system for the irrigation of 
this Farming Land. The first section is already complete, and 
water was delivered to the land for the season of 1907, and the 
rest of the sj-stem will be built as rapidly as justified by the 
settlement of the land and the demand for water. 

Perpetual Water Rights, together with a proportionate in- 
terest in the Canals and Reservoirs, are sold at $30 per acre on 
ten years' time, payable $3 per acre down, and the balance in 10 
equal annual payments, with 6 per cent, interest. 



Upon the completion of the irrigation system and sale of the 
water rights the entire system will be turned over, free of all 
incumbrance, to a Water Users' Association, composed of all 
the Farmers, each Farmer owning his proportionate interest in 
the entire system of Canals and Reservoirs. This is provided for 
in the water right contract. 

Three Things Combined That Insure Abundant Crops. 

RICH SOIL, PERPETUAL SUNSHINE and ABUNDANT 
WATER under absolute control of the Farmer, and intelligent 
industry. Results: No Drought, No Drowning Out, and 
LARGE INCREASE in Crops over Eastern States. 

TEN years in which to make and pay for a Farm and at the 
same time make a competency. 

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Irrigation Makes from iO Per Cent, to 75 Per Cent. Larger Crops 
Than Does Eainfall in the East. 



ALL THIS IS AVAILABLE AT RIVERTON, WYO, 

EXPERIMENTAL FARMS are conducted by the company, 
under the supervision of an experienced Agricultural Expert in 
plants and irrigation methods, in connection with the National 
Government's Bureau of Irrigation Investigation of the Agri- 
cultural Department. This is for the free information and in- 
struction of the settlers as to the value of various crops, char^ 
acter of soil and best methods of irrigation. 



THE LANDS. 

The lands to be irrigated lie in that portion of the Shoshone 
Indian Reservation, recently opened for settlement, lying North 
of the BIG WIND RIVER. The opened portion embraces 
1,150,000 ACRES, the irrigable portion covering 350,000 ACRES 
of this; the remainder is fine grazing, mineral and coal lands. 

The entire tract is admirably situated in a great amphithe- 
ater-like basin, well protected by high mountain ranges, covered 
with thick forests and perpetual snows, acting as Nature's Res- 
ervoirs. The lands in question are situated near the toe of a 
great horseshoe formed by mountain ranges 8,000 to 12,000 feet 




Result of Two Months' Irrig , ;' I ,:'m, First Year on Raw Land. 

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Irrigated Grains of Wyoming Took the Grand Prize at the World's 

Fair. 



in height. (See map, page 8.) As the elevation of the irri- 
gable lands is only 5,000 feet— 300 feet less than Denver, Colo- 
rado the view of the mountains, pinnacled crests, snow-capped 

peaks and crags, standing out in beautiful profile silhouetted 
against the eternal blue, gives the beholder a lasting impression 
of the sublimity of the continent's divide and of the beautiful 
and fertile valley. Thus surrounded, it is protected from storms; 
the climate is mild and healthful. Not a day was lost during 
the Winter of 1906-7 in Canal construction; plowing and ex- 
cavating was going on all the time. Live stock is run at large 
the year round without feeding. 




Bull Lake Reservoir. 



THE SOIL is a very rich sandy loam, often forty feet in 
depth, and has proven here, as well as in other sections of the 
State, to be very productive. 

CROPS: The average crops grown in this vicinity, per 
acre, are: 



Bu. 

Wheat 50 

Oats : 90 

Weighing 45 lbs. per bushel. 

Bu. 

Rye 40 

Barley 40 

Peas . . . . 50 

Beans . 25 



Alfalfa hay, two cuttings, 3 tons 
per cutting. 

Timothy Hay 2 tons 

Native and other Hays .... V-k tons 

Potatoes 200 to 300 bu. 

Tons 

Onions 45 

Carrots 25 

Parsnips 30 



Irrigated Grasses and Forage Plants from Wyoming Took the Grand 

Prize at St. Louis. 



Beets 

Sugar Beets 



Tons No. per acre 

. . 35 Pumpkins 1,950 

. . 20 Squashes 2,500 




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No. per acre 

Watermelons 2,000 

Muskmelons 4,200 

Quarts 

Strawberries £,900 

Raspberries 1,000 

Cherries 4,500 

Blackberries 1,000 

Lbs. per acre 
Currants 21,000 



Lbs. per acre 

Gooseberries 29,000 

Apples, yield abundantly. 

Turnips 40 tons 

Heads 

Cabbage . 2,750 

Cauliflower 4,000 

Bu. 

Cucumbers . 133 

Tomatoes 190 



Sugar beets yielding from 20 to 25 tons per acre show from 
18 to 24 per cent, saccharine matter, which realizes to the Farmer 
a net profit of from $30 to $50 per acre. 





BEFORE. 

April 12th, 1907. 

A Settler Just Arrived on His Claim. 



RICHNESS OF SOIL : The average yield of the arid lands 
in the' Rockies of the different kinds of crops is from 40 per cent, 
to 75 per cent, greater every year than that of the humid por- 
tions of the United States, as in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri; be- 
sides, there is no failure of crops under irrigation. This won- 
derful richness of our soil is clearly explained by a professor of 
agriculture in an article in the North American Review. 

Soils are. formed by the disintegration, physical and chemical or 
weathering of rocks. This breaking up and wearing away of the parent 
rock results in the formation of compounds which are soluble in water, 



Irrigation Precludes the Possibility of Crop Failure. 




AFTER. 

August 12th. 1907. 

Result of Same Settler's Four Months' Work. 

70 Acres of Oats. 60 Acres of Potatoes. 30 Acres of Corn. 



Wyoming Irrigated Wheat, Barley, Oats, Rye, Beans and Alfalfa 
Took the Gold Medal at St. Louis World's Fair. 



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Wyoming — the Land of Vast Natural Resources. 

these compounds being chiefly of sodium, potassium, calcium and mag- 
nesium. Where rains occur more or less regularly throughout the year, 
these water soluble compounds are leached out of the land, passing 
into sub-drainage, and thence through springs and streams into the sea. 
But where the rainfall is scanty, this leaching can take place only par- 
tially, or not at all, and we frequently see the salts of potassium, sodium 
and magnesium directly on the surface of the soil, having been brought 
up by the evaporation of the soil moisture. While an excess of such 
salts, as sal-soda, common and Glauber's salt, is injurious, where there 
is not an excess there is formed in the soil of the arid regions a much 
greater supply of plant food than in the regions of rain, where the plant 
food is leached out. This great accumulation of plant food defers any 
need of artificial fertilization. This, without entering into an extended 
scientific discussion, explains the unusual productiveness of the arid 
regions and assures us that that great productiveness will be lasting. 
In arid regions there is very little true clay formed, the soils 
throughout being sandy and powdery. Consequently, there is very little 
or no difference between the soil on the surface and the sub-soil; air. 
water and the roots of plants penetrating to much greater depth than 
in those soils where the under soil is dense and clayey. In this irri- 
gated country, from three to six times as great an amount of soil can 
be drawn from by plants as in a humid country. 



Experience has proved that irrigated land will produce 
as much on 40 acres as 125 acres will produce in the 
Eastern States. 



The productiveness of this land, 

The incomparable climate. 

And the diversity of natural resources 
Should appeal particularly to the Farmer, East and West, who 
should dispose of his high-priced land — where crops are limited 
by rainfall — and take up these choice lands at small cost under 
this irrigation system, where, with rich soil, everlasting sunshine 
and water under absolute control, he has perfect supervising- 
power over his crop production. 



CLEARING AND GRUBBING. 

The lands are of two kinds: One covered with black sage 
brush, which costs, by contract work, from $1.50 to $2.50 an acre 
to clear; the other kind is salt sage land, which does not require 
clearing. Both lands plow easily and produce well the first year. 
Crops should be in by April 15th or May 1st. 



This is the time and place for the young man and 
woman to make a home and a fortune. 

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WYOMING Spells and Stands for OPPORTUNITY. 



THE WATER SYSTEM. 



The source of the water supply is the Big Wind River and its 
tributaries — creeks and lakes — which has a drainage area of 
2,000 square miles of timbered mountains. This river is one of 
the large tributaries of the Missouri River and carries a great 
quantity of water, being only fordable at low water, and then 
with some danger, from September to April, but as a double 
safeguard against possible shortage of water, which might be 
caused by light snowfall in the mountains, nature has provided 
storage reservoirs, ample for 350,000 acre feet of water, 
enough to cover all of the irrigable land one foot deep, over and 
above the regular flow of the river, in the form of five natural 
lakes — Bull, Dinwoody, Brooks and Torey Lakes — with a com- 
bined capacity of 300,000 acre feet, in addition to the five other 




Oats, First Year on Raw Land. 

natural reservoir sites for which permits have been issued to the 
company by the State. 

CANALS : The State of Wyoming has issued permits for 
two main canals to carry the water for the great lateral dis- 
tributing canals. The Wyoming Canal, taking water from the 
river below the mouth of Bull Lake, will carry the water for 
irrigation for a distance of 40 miles. The Fremont Canal, taking 
water below the mouth of the lakes — which will likewise supply 
the Wyoming Canal — will carry water for a distance of 35 miles. 
From these main canals there will be necessary a vast system 
of lateral canals. 



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Irrigation Is Man's Control of Nature in Farming. 

RAILWAY CONNECTIONS, 

(See map, page 8.) 

The Eastern boundary of the entire tract and Riverton, the 
initial and distributing point, are on the Chicago & Northwestern 
Railway, by means of which direct connection is had with Omaha 
and Chicago and all Eastern points. The road has extended its 
surveys through the heart of the irrigable tract and up Wind 
River to the Yellowstone National Park, and is expected to soon 
begin the construction of this Western outlet. By means of the 
Colorado & Southern Railway from Orin Junction, on the C. & 
N. W., direct connection is had with Denver and the Gulf and 
with Cheyenne, the Capital City, and the Union Pacific Railway 
to all points East and West. 




Sugar Beets, First Year on Raw Land. 

The Burlington & Missouri Railway is now operating to 
within 35 miles of the Northern portion of the lands, and is pre- 
paring to build on South, and is expected to pass through the 
irrigable lands and Riverton on its way to Denver; this North 
and South line will cross their surveyed East and West line 
through the State; this line is now built and in operation to 
Guernsey, in the Eastern portion of the State. By means of the 
Burlington & Missouri Railway the lands will have direct con- 
nection North with Portland and Seattle, via Billings on the 
Northern Pacific, Denver on the South and all points East and 
West via their main line. Thus the lands will become a central 
point, available over several lines of railway from all points of 

the compass. 

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Irrigation Improves the Quality and Quantity of Crops. 



MARKETS. 
Chicago-Omaha-Kansas City — Denver. 

HOME MARKETS consist of: First— The Great Mining 
country immediately surrounding and adjacent to the tract, and 
which is being rapidly pushed to the forefront in development 
in Gold, Copper, Oil and Coal. 

Second — The Live Stock Industry — Fattening of the vast 
number of sheep and cattle which range on the mountain slopes. 

Third — There is room for more than a half dozen towns in 
the tract. 

Fourth — Beet Sugar Factories, which are expected to be in 
operation as soon as the farmers can contract to furnish the 
beets; 15 to 20 tons are easily produced per acre. 

Fifth — Lumber Camps in the mountains. 

Sixth— The Water Power will bring the WOOLEN FAC- 
TORY to manufacture the wool from the hundreds of thousands 
of sheep now ranged on the public land in the vicinity. This 
pasture land will, as it can not be irrigated, probably always 
remain for open range. 

Seventh — Numerous small Live Stock Towns along the lines 
of railway, not situated near irrigable lands, between Riverton 
and the Eastern and Southern portions of the State. These 
towns now import most of their produce every year from the 
East. The recent advent of the railroad has opened up this gar- 
den spot of Wyoming to the home market. 



NATURAL RESOURCES 

Of the Country Surrounding the Irrigable Lands. 

The natural resources surrounding the irrigable lands now. 
by reason of the advent of the railways, in course of develop- 
ment, and which will draw supplies from the former, are: 
Gold, Copper and Coal Mines; 

Lubricating, Illuminating and Fuel Oil Fields ; 

Clays and Shales, suitable for brick, tile and pottery; 
Portland Cement; Stucco Deposits. 

Great Forests of pine and spruce timber; 

Thousands of Cattle and Sheep to feed and fatten; 
Vast ranges of open pasture lands. 



OIL : The Boston Journal for investors says : 
"When it comes to oil, Wyoming certainly bids fair to illuminate 
and lubricate the works of man for generations. The eighteen oil fiolds 
known in that State present a greater variety of product than any 
similar known area, as it varies from the highest grade of lubricating 
oils, without a trace of illuminating constituents, to an equal high grade 

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Wyoming Has 140 Different Minerals. 



of illuminating oil, totally free from lubricants, and with a range of 
intermediate oils and products that is a revelation to oil men." 

About 30 miles South of Riverton is the Southeast end of 
the Popo Agie oil fields, whence it is readily traced by oil springs 
and out-croppings for 40 miles in a Northwesterly direction to 
the South edge of the irrigable lands on Wind River. (See map.) 
In this field there are now 14 liowing wells, having a capacity 
of 200 barrels each per day. Pipes are now being laid to carry 
it to the railroad South of Riverton, and other wells are being 
drilled. 

GOLD : Southwest of this oil field are located the famous 
South Pass, Atlantic City and Miner's Delight Gold Fields, 
which have produced millions in the yellow metal, practically 
from the surface. New life is evident in these camps this year 
since the railroad arrived at Riverton. These ores can be brought 
by tram to the railroad. 

COPPER: The Kirwin District and the Washakie Needles 
Section, situated at the Northwestern corner of the Reservation ; 
the Boyson District, on the river near the Northeast corner of 
the lands, and Copper Mountain, a few miles further East, are 
being rapidly developed into mammoth properties. The State 
Geologist declares this territory of the Owl Creek Mountains to 
be "The most valuable new undeveloped mining country in the 
West." 

COAL: Numerous large veins of semi-bituminous and lig- 
nite coals are found within and surrounding the irrigable lands. 
And just over the range, at head of the Wind piver, is a 20-foot 
vein of coking coal. 

TIMBER: The mountains at thejie^d of Wind River are 
covered with a thick growth of pine^and spruce, suitable for all 
kinds of lumber, building and bridge timber, and railroad ties. 
This timber can be floated down [the river to any point desired. 

PORTLAND CEMENT: The deposit of materials for the 
manufacture of this cement are within and surrounding the irri- 
gable lands, as are also shales suitable for fine brick, tiles and 
pottery, and stucco plaster. Also large deposits of Limestone 
and Gypsum. 

MARBLE AND BUILDING STONE: Great quarries of 
these are found in the mountains just South of Riverton. 

RECREATION, PLEASURE and HEALTH: The Moun- 
tain Region and the National Park, adjacent to the irrigable 
lands, embrace 13,848 square miles, containing innumerable and 
beautiful parks, traversed by thousands of swift mountain 
streams and studded with hundreds of large and small lakes, 
which abound with trout of all varieties. This territory fur- 
nishes sport for thousands of pleasure seekers in shooting elk, 
deer and bear, and landing speckled and rainbow trout. 

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Secure Perpetual Control of "Rainfall" Through Perpetual Water 
Right From the Canal System. 



Ever since this section was traversed by Coulter in 1803, 
Astor's party in 1811, and Captain Bonneville in 1832, its beau- 
ties have been recognized as the grandest scenery in the Western 
Hemisphere. Riverton is the outfitting point for pleasure seek- 
ers to the Jackson Hole, the Grand Tetons and the National Park, 
just over the range at the head of Wind River. 

THE BIG HORN HOT SPRINGS furnish a health resort 
unsurpassed by any in the world. The main spring (there are 
one hundred) discharges 18,600,000 gallons of mineral water, 
with a heat of 135 degrees Fahrenheit, every 24 hours. Rheuma- 
tism, Blood and Skin diseases and some forms of Stomach and 
Kidney troubles yield readily to the influence of these waters. 

CLIMATE : Three things make the climate here the most 
enjoyable on the continent; eighty-five per cent, of the days are 
full of sunshine and blue sky, and every day dry air. Through 
the gateways of the mountains on the West are admitted the 
softening and warming Pacific air currents, so the Winters are 
mild; one may, even in Mid Winter, sit in comfort in the sun- 
shine in any sheltered corner. In Summer shady places are cool, 
sunstroke is unknown, and every night is full of peaceful sleep. 

It is the glory of perpetual sunshine which has so much to 
do with the beneficial influence of the climate of this section on 
human, vegetable and animal life. The sparkling, dry, mild air 
makes life happier and more satisfactory than it can be under 
the clouded skies and humid atmosphere of the East and South. 

The following table is the Government record on the tract 
for first seven months of 1907. No record was kept prior to this. 
A complete record will be kept from now on : 



Month. 



January. 
February 
March. . . 

April 

May 

June 

July 

August . 



Temperature 






Sunshine. 


Highest. 


Lowest. 


Mean. 


Clear days 


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days. 


54 


—5 


33.6 


29 


2 


62 


—8 


31.7 


25 


3 


69 


13+ 


39.7 


25 


6 


77 


15+ 


42.3 


27 


3 


81 


19+ 


47. 


27 


4 


86 


35+ 


59.7 


26 


4 


95 


45+ 


69.3 


30 


1 


98 


38+ . 


68. 


30 


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None. 



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1.21 

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It is a conservative statement to say that no territory of 
such area in the United States offers such varied inducements to 
the Farmer, Stockman, Miner, Merchant, Investor, Pleasure or 
Health Seeker as is embraced within the limits shown on the 
map page. 

Come to Riverton and We Will "Show You" 



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